Quotes About Intersection

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I don't mean the 'evil' kind of hacking.

Whereas cascaded goals are a control mechanism, cascaded meaning is a release mechanism. It brings to life the context within which everyone works, but it leaves the locus of control—for choosing, deciding, prioritizing, goal setting—where it truly resides, and where understanding of the world and the ability to do something about it intersect: with the team member.

To put this second claim somewhat differently, the world of Spirit and the world of ordinary experience are seen as not completely separate, but as intersecting at a number of points.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true, I think, when the apposition is cultural.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet.

Here is the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam.

Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide.

For our purposes an inversion occurs when seemingly unrelated, even disparate starting points converge and reinforce each other.

I wasn't there when the old Indian man from Worley said it, but I know it must be true: Every highway in the world crosses some reservation, cuts it in half.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.